“We like each other and we drive each other crazy—that’s a good match for writing,” says Richard Scrimger, describing partnering with fellow Canadian author Marthe Jocelyn on Viminy Crowe’s Comic Book (Tundra, May), illustrated by Claudia Davila. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Life is one adventure after another, and at booth 1313, Abbeville Press is celebrating some of the things that make it so: Italian cuisine, the seven seas, and Jane Austen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the addition of both a gift line and a children’s book imprint to its already diverse publishing program, the Quarto Group will have a strong presence at BEA as one of the leading illustrated book publishers and distribution groups in the world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The last time Garth Stein was at Book Expo it was 2008, and he admits he was happy to get “spill” from Tom Wolfe’s (I Am Charlotte Simmons) autographing line. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reduced or zero rates of VAT should be removed from physical books to create a single rate across... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Black Dog & Leventhal, whose mission is to publish original nonfiction that brings complex subjects to a mass audience via experts in their fields, has two books on its fall list that the editors are particularly enthusiastic about. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rowman & Littlefield continues to make its mark in three varied areas of interest: food studies, current events, and niche areas of sports. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s authors and books will, as always, be well represented at this year’s Indies Choice Book Awards and E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards ceremony, which takes place during today’s Celebration of Bookselling luncheon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut, a sequel, the first of a new fantasy trilogy and more were among the books discussed at BookExpo America 2014's YA Editors' Buzz Panel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Looking to create some post–literary conference drama in the name of legendary writers like Poe, who whacked his head with a bottle of whiskey in front of a mirror? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The U.K. wholesaler Gardners is fielding its strongest team yet at BEA as it promotes its new U.S. shipping service. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Munching on a “healthy” muffin or drinking a “skinny” latte while reading this article? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
It all began, Emily St. John Mandel says, when she “thought it would be interesting to write about the life of an actor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The name, “Webb Hubbell,” conjures up the Clinton era in politics—starting in Little Rock, Arkansas and then on to our nation’s capital. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the past eight years, in an annual demonstration of generosity, Headline Books has hosted not only its own authors at BEA but also an array of Next Generation Indie Book Award winners or finalists who are independently published authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The number of comics and graphic novel publishers with stand-alone booths and programming at BEA this year is once again declining, following last year’s trend. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Douglas Preston and John Scalzi have a lot in common: their work, of course—they both write speculative and near-future fiction about, as Douglas Preston says, “things we are quite sure will happen.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
BEA attendees faithfully—and eagerly—flock to two panels that have become popular staples of the show’s programming. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
“Now in my 80s, in my second or third childhood, I’ve come back to the noir influence,” says Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist, author, and award-winning screenwriter and playwright, about Kill My Mother, an original graphic novel (Norton/Liveright, Aug.). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
After meeting in the past in 2007’s The Magic Half, Miri and Molly land safely in the present—but not for long. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]